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' M. HUBBE. 1 -=SUBMARINE TORPBDO BOAT.

Patented'July 5,1881

UNITED STATES PATENT .Orrien.

MARTIN HUBBE, or BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY, AssIe on F ONE-IIALF- ro enoaen H. REYNOLDS, on NEW YORK, N. Y., AND MARCUS A. HARDY,

OF NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.

SUBMARINE TORPEDO-BOAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,907, dated July 5, 1881..

Application filed February 24, i879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MA IN .HUBBE, of Bayonne, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain. new

and useful Improvements in Marine Vessels, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to submarine vessels, and especially to submarine torpedoes, propelled by a motive agent contained within them and steered and controlled from the shore-or other place or vessel. Its object is to preclude the fouling of the cahlcwtith the rudder or propeller-wheel as it is paidout.

To this end it consists in a torpedo-vessel having a pipe or tube for the cable connected with the cable-coil chamber and extending be yond or aft the rudder and propeller'wheel.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a partly-sectional side view of the rear or stern portion of the propeller-vessel and appurtenances embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a centrallongitudinal vertical section of a modification of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate cone 2 5 spondin g parts in both figures.

A, Figs. 1 and 2, representsthe rear or stern portion of the hull of a movable torpedo-boat provided with a propeller-wheel, 1.

B designates the after bulk-head of the ca- 0 ble-coil compartment.

D is the drum or case in which the cable, preferably in the form of a coil, is carried.

0, Fig. 1, is a tube, preferably tapering rearwardly, which leads from the bulk-head D aft 3 5 and diagonally down to the bottom of the hull A. It has at the ends a water-tight connection with the bnlk-headB and hull A, respectively.

E is a sliding mouth-piece, attached to the center-piece of the drum D and-communicating with the tube 0. Outside the botto'ml'of the hull A an extension-tube, F, is attached to the tube 0 and leading along the skeg'G, as also underneath the rudder It and propellerthe shaft may be hollow and receive within it ;a=stationary pipe, X, leading through it and out aft the propeller-wheel. The inboard end of the shaft M will in such cases be provided with a stuffing-box, Z, to prevent water from entering the torpedo. The conical tube 0, in 5 5 this modification of my invention, instead of leading diagonally down, passes directly from the bulk-head B to pipe X, and is secured to the same with a water-tight connection, thus establishing a nearly straight tube for paying .out.

propellemvheel, substantially as specified.

. MARTIN HUBBE.

Witnesses: v

HENRY '1. BROWN, FRED. HAYNES. 

